Socrates is a hopefully easy to use front end to libsane and a number
of OCR engines. It currently works with GOCR and is being modified to
use libgocr.

The socrates user interface is somewhat reminiscent of the old
"easyscan" program from Arkenstone. That is there is a
simple command line prompt which accepts one or more interactive
keystrokes to perform it's operations.

Socrates current status is actively being worked on by Jim Danley and
Kirk Reiser. Jim is writing the configuration system and Kirk is
writing the interface to libgocr.

The current version of socrates has the module name socrates and can
be checked out of cvs by doing: